Kallista
Kallista
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AC 13 · HP 10 · 30 ft.Saving throws
Skills
- AcrobaticsDEX
- Animal HandlingSTR
- ArcanaINT
- AthleticsSTR
- DeceptionCHA
- HistoryINT
- InsightWIS
- IntimidationCHA
- InvestigationINT
- MedicineWIS
- NatureINT
- PerceptionWIS
- PerformanceCHA
- PersuasionCHA
- ReligionINT
- Sleight of HandDEX
- StealthDEX
- SurvivalWIS
Armor
Weapons
Tools
Languages
Features
16 featuresAlways on
- Eldritch Blast
When When Kallista takes the Attack action or otherwise casts the cantrip
Kallista launches a beam of crackling violet and silver eldritch energy at a creature within range, making a ranged spell attack. On a hit, the target takes 1d10 Force damage.
- Hex
When Bonus Action, when a visible creature is within 90 feet
Kallista marks a creature with a whispered curse. Until the spell ends, her attacks deal an extra 1d6 Necrotic damage against the target, and the target has Disadvantage on ability checks using one ability of her choice.
- Sacred Flame
When When a creature Kallista can see is within 60 feet
Kallista opens her palm and sends a dim, star-like flame toward a creature. On a failed Dexterity save, the target takes 1d8 Radiant damage.
- Cure Wounds
When Action, when Kallista touches a willing or incapacitated creature
Kallista touches a creature and restores 1d8 plus 4 Hit Points.
- Otherworldly Patron, LysanthirLevel 1
Kallista has formed a pact with Lysanthir, a mysterious otherworldly entity. This pact grants her access to Pact Magic and the knowledge required to wield eldritch power.
- Pact MagicLevel 1
Kallista knows two Warlock cantrips and has two level 1 Warlock spells prepared. Her spellcasting ability is Charisma. She has one Pact Magic spell slot, which is always cast at level 1 and is regained when she finishes a Short or Long Rest.
- Eldritch InvocationsLevel 1
Kallista has unearthed one Eldritch Invocation. She has chosen Pact of the Tome, allowing her to conjure a Book of Shadows containing additional magical knowledge.
- Pact of the TomeLevel 1
At the end of a Short or Long Rest, Kallista can conjure a Book of Shadows in her hand. The book contains eldritch magic and reflects her pact with Lysanthir.
- Creature TypeTieflingHumanoid
- TraitTieflingMedium size
- SpeedTiefling30 feet
- TraitTieflingDarkvision out to 60 feet
- Chthonic Fiendish LegacyTieflingResistance to Necrotic damage and knowledge of the Chill Touch cantrip
- Otherworldly PresenceTieflingThaumaturgy cantrip, using Charisma as the spellcasting ability
- TraitTieflingFiendish Legacy spells gained at character levels 3 and 5 are not yet available at level 1
- Magic Initiate, ClericAcolyte
Magic Initiate, Cleric. Kallista knows the Guidance and Sacred Flame cantrips and always has Cure Wounds prepared. Charisma is her spellcasting ability for these spells. She can cast Cure Wounds once without expending a spell slot, regaining that ability when she finishes a Long Rest, and she can also cast it using her spell slots.
Spells
9 spellsSpellcasting. Kallista casts with Charisma (spell save DC 14, to hit with spell attacks).
Cantrips (at will): , , , , ,
1st level (1 slot): , ,
Gear
9 itemsWeapons
- SickleA small curved blade used as both a practical tool and emergency weapon.
Armor
- Leather ArmorLight armor made from supple, dark-dyed leather, carefully patched at the elbows and shoulders.
Gear
- Arcane FocusA silver-threaded crystal set in a black iron frame, used as an arcane focus.
- Scholar's PackA backpack containing a bedroll, mess kit, tinderbox, ten torches, ten days of rations, a waterskin, and fifty feet of hempen rope.
- Book of PrayersA small prayer book containing copied passages from several faiths, with the names of erased and exiled worshipers written in the margins.
- Holy SymbolA polished holy symbol whose central emblem has been deliberately scratched away.
- 10×ParchmentLoose parchment used for transcribing names, testimonies, and forbidden questions.
- RobeA plain temple robe, altered with hidden inner pockets and violet stitching.
Purse
- 15×Gold PiecesCoin carried for travel, bribes, and helping people leave places that would rather keep them trapped.
Appearance
Kallista is a tall, elegant Tiefling woman standing 1.85 meters tall and weighing 70 kg. Her midnight-blue skin is scattered with tiny white freckles that resemble a starfield, and her silver eyes have narrow, cat-like pupils. Violet curls cascade over her shoulders, usually gathered on one side with a threadbare silver clasp. Her horns sweep backward in smooth arcs, and her slender tail is often wrapped loosely around her waist when she is thinking. She wears a carefully mended leather coat over practical traveling clothes, with one immaculate violet sash inherited from her former temple. She smells faintly of candle wax, rain on stone, and lavender ink. Her pact grimoire is bound in dark blue leather and filled with handwritten names of the forgotten.
Mannerisms
Kallista tilts her head and narrows her silver eyes whenever someone invokes tradition as an argument. She traces invisible constellations on tabletops while listening, and she lowers her voice rather than raising it when angry. Before leaving a room, she checks whether anyone present has been ignored.
Personality
Kallista is compassionate, skeptical, and fiercely independent. She listens patiently to people others dismiss, then remembers details that even they thought unimportant. She dislikes titles and ceremonial authority, but she respects competence, honesty, and anyone willing to admit uncertainty. Her rebellion is not aimless. She bends rules to protect people, never merely for the thrill of breaking them.
Ideals
Liberation. No doctrine, law, god, or patron has the right to own a person's future. Truth is found by questioning power and freeing those it has abandoned.
Bonds
Kallista's pact with Lysanthir began when she found a nameless prisoner dying beneath the temple archives. In the darkness, a voice like silk drawn across glass offered knowledge, not obedience, and asked only that she remember those whom the gods had discarded. Kallista accepted freely. She now travels from place to place, gathering the names and stories of the forgotten, using Lysanthir's strange power to expose institutions that profit from silence. She does not know whether her patron is a benevolent cosmic rebel, a dangerous manipulator, or both, but she refuses to surrender her conscience to anyone.
Flaws
Kallista assumes that authority is guilty until it proves otherwise. She can mistake necessary compromise for cowardice, and her instinct to defy control sometimes places allies in danger. She is also dangerously curious about Lysanthir's true nature, especially when the answers might reveal that her rebellion has served someone else's design.
Quirks
Background
Kallista was raised in a moonlit temple devoted to the Weaver gods, where acolytes were taught that every soul was a thread in a sacred design. She became a gifted copyist and compassionate caretaker, tending to exiles, debtors, and condemned prisoners whose names the temple preferred to forget. Over time, she noticed that the Weaver priests spoke endlessly of order while abandoning people whose lives no longer fit the pattern. The severed were not guided, mended, or mourned. They were simply declared lost.
“Over time, she noticed that the Weaver priests spoke endlessly of order while abandoning people whose lives no longer fit the pattern.”
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Tiefling
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